Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p434

William Wetherill, liv. at H. until his ho. was burn. by the Ind. 20 Apr.
1676, after wh. he rem. to s. He had Sarah, b. 30 May 1670; Nathaniel, 1675;
and Rebecca, 1676; all at H.; Nathan, and Abigail, tw. 1678; Jael, 1680;
Israel, 1682, d. soon; Abigail, again, 1683; and Israel, again, 1686, all at
S.; and d. 1731. His will, of 1729, gave est. to Israel, Abigail, these ds.
of his d. Sarah Brock, viz. Mary Witherton, Grace Davis, and Bathsheba
Bradford; and made his d. Jael extrix. JAPHET, Hingham, br. of the preced.
went to Eng. bef. 1670, as a surgeon, intend. to go to E. I. but was not heard
of after. JEREMIAH, Topsfield, br. of the preced. b. in Eng. freem. 1653,
ord. 2 Oct. 1672, but after uncomfort. service, was dism. 21 Sept. 1680, and
rem. to Hempstead, L. I. there was again sett. 1682, and again dism. went to
Haddam, there was install. 14 Nov. 1700, and d. 6 Nov. 1715, on Sunday, betw.
the morn. and even. service, hav. partaken the sacrament in public worship, as
the rec. says in 85th yr. Yet the Boston Newsletter of Apr. 1717, in relat. of
the d. of Rev. Joshua as of Feb. preced. asserts, that Jeremiah, the br. d. "a
few wks. after." This error, in such great authority, misled three or four
generat. Inv. of his est. is of 22 Nov. 1715. His w. Elizabeth was d. of Rev. Samuel
Whiting of Lynn, who outliv. him and d. at Hartford, aged 88. One of his ds.
m. Hezekiah Wyllis, Sec. of the Prov. of Conn. and ano. m. Hezekiah
Brainerd, town clk. f. of the ardent missionary; and Dorothy, wh. was
ano. m. 19 Apr. 1704, Daniel Mason. JOHN, Hingham, s. of sec. Edmund,
m. 2 Apr. 1674, Hannah Burr, d. of Simon, had Hannah, b. 20 July 1674,
rememb. in the will of her gr.f. Simon B. and the f. d. 15 May foll.
* ║ JOSHUA, Hingham. s. of the first Edmund, came, prob. with his f. in 1633, and
in the winter foll. was adm. of Charlestown ch. freem. 3 Sept. 1634, next yr.
went with his br. Rev. Peter, m. Mar. 1638, Ellen Ibrook, at Cambridge; ar.
co. 1641, was a capt. rep. 1643, and very many yrs. after, speaker in 1674,
head of a comp. in active serv. in Philip's war, and d. 28 July 1682, aged
67. His ch. were Hannah, bapt. 1639, wh. m. 30 Oct. 1657, Joseph Grafton, and
d. in few yrs.; Peter, 1642 (a mariner, wh. d. June 1665,
at Barbados, leav. wid. Susanna, wh. was d. of Jacob Eliot of Boston, m. Dec.
1662); Sarah, b. 19 Nov. 1644; Deborah, Sept. 1647, m. 20 Apr. 1666, Joshua
Lincoln; Joshua, 22 Mar. 1650; Solomon, 28 May 1652; Enoch, 20 May 1654; and
Hannah, again, 4 Oct. 1666. Sarah m. Edward Cowell of Boston in 1668. JOSHUA,
Braintree, s. of Thomas of Hingham, of wh. all that is kn. is the inscript.
"aged a. 74 yrs. d. 28 Dec. 1713." JOSHUA, Southold, L. I. 1674, s. of Rev.
Peter, came with his f. prob. June 1635, freem. 1653, was min. above 45 yrs.
d. Feb. 1717 in 89th yr. In the memoir of Rev. John Henry H. Bp. of New York,
wh. d. 12 Sept. 1830, aged 56, he is call. a descend. of capt. Joshua; but the
joints are not well compacted, the branch is prob. wrong, and one generat. I
presume, was